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Flora and Fauna by mariatesstruther (JenniReals) for PenAndInkPrincess, Arien
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
22 Jul 2023
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“Why do you smell like violets?”
Unfortunately, the question makes Maria sit up in surprise, pulling her away from his chest enough so that she can turn and face him. “How the fuck did you know it was violet?”
He laughs at her clear shock—he fucking loves when he can manage to surprise her—and attempts again to pull her closer. “What, a guy can’t know his flowers? Am I too macho to know my flora and fauna?”
“No, no, I just—I thought it was lavender.”
“Lavender? You don’t know what lavender smells like? Lavender’s way stronger!”
“Oh, excuse me. All my years in law, and I didn’t know it was a crime to not know the fucking difference between violet and lavender.”
“I’m just sayin’! They ain’t even related.”
“Oh, fuck off, they ain’t even related.” Maria’s imitation of his accent, as always, makes him huff out a laugh. “That’s what you sound like! They’re both purple!”
“The fuck does that gotta do with how they smell?”
“Fuck off, Tommy Miller,”
(maria and tommy discuss flowers, remember sarah, and say i love you for the first time.)
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- Part 3 of Duty and Love
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ily, imu, im sry (i love you, i miss you, im sorry) by mariatesstruther (JenniReals) for Bumblepony, Arien
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
20 Jul 2023
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3:42 PM
Ellie: yeah my mom def knows ur uncle dude wtf is going on
Sarah: idk
Sarah: they’ve been pretending to not since we got here
Sarah: i cant tell what theyre tryna do but my uncle cant act for shitEllie: he really cant
Ellie: we’ll talk abt it in my room once he leaves. i have a theorySarah: omg what
Ellie: idk if i should say it lmfao
Sarah: ????? SAY IT
Ellie: what if they used to
Ellie: ya knowSarah: EW
Sarah: 🤢🤮🤧
Sarah: I WAS THINKING IT BUT I DIDNT WANT YOU TO SAY ITEllie: I MEAN LOOK AT THEM ITS AWKWARD AS HECK
Sarah: ik its kinda embarrassing
Ellie: do u wanna go up to my room
Sarah: yes pls
(in which joel and tess haven't spoken for ten years, but are reintroduced for their daughters’ english project. sarah and ellie misinterpret the situation quite a bit.)
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Fear of Heights by mariatesstruther (JenniReals) for Arien, cannedpeaches, timelesslords, Bumblepony
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
16 Jul 2023
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Maria pushes aside any positive feelings she’s had about this day and this man, meeting his eyes coldly. She tries not to think about how not even ten minutes earlier, Tommy was watching her scream for her life, dangling from a goddamn tree.
“This isn’t an invitation,” she starts, voice unyielding and stern. “We’re talking you to somewhere where our people can make a decision on you. So you’re officially on probation, Tommy Miller. You steal anything, you’re out. You fuck with anyone, you’re out. We find out you’re still with the Fireflies, and you’re dead. You do anything at all to put my people in danger, and I will make sure to shoot you myself. Am I understood?”
Shockingly enough, Tommy just smiles—it’s a small, soft grin, boyish aimed straight at her. Either he was left deranged from his injuries or a tried-and-true adrenaline junkie, because her threats only seem to intrigue him. “Yes, ma’am,” he says, voice deep and charming. “I understand you clear as day.”
(in which Maria meets Tommy, and Tommy meets Jackson)
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- Part 2 of Duty and Love
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Hard Work and Other People by mariatesstruther (JenniReals) for cannedpeaches, timelesslords
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
12 Jul 2023
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Her father sat up even straighter, looking her straight in the eye. She remembers feeling that she would need to keep these next words with her forever, so she did:
“It doesn’t matter to me whether or not you’ll be great. You hear me, babydoll? I just want you to love it. Life’s nothing but hard work and other people, so you need to love what you do and who you do it with. You need to love how you live. If not, what you do just isn’t worth it.”a glimpse into Maria’s life Before and After 2003
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- Part 1 of Duty and Love
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Duty and Love by JenniReals, mariatesstruther (JenniReals)
Fandom The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
22 Jul 2023
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through whatever you lose by aloneintherain
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
20 Feb 2026
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Shane’s eyes snap open. Wait a second.
“Ilya,” Shane says, propping himself up on his elbows. “Ilya, wake up.”
Ilya makes a pained noise, eyes still shut. “I shut curtains already.”
“It’s not that. Ilya, hey. Don’t go back to sleep.” Ilya tries to bury back into Shane’s chest, but adrenaline knifes through Shane’s hangover long enough for him to peel Ilya off and roll him into his back. Ilya blinks blearily up at him, starfished in the sheets. Beautiful and naked and missing his mother’s cross.
OR: When Ilya’s cross goes missing after the Centaurs celebrate their first Stanley Cup win, Shane is determined to get it back. And so are the Centaurs. And the rest of Ottawa.
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23 Feb 2026
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“Come on,” Comeau says. “Are we all just supposed to pretend it's normal that you’re still playing house with Ilya Rozanov?”
“Gil—” J.J. says, but Shane doesn’t want him to finish that sentence, to pull Comeau gently off the ledge he’s steering himself toward. Shane wants to push him, kicking and screaming, to make them say it to his fucking face. That after all this time, they still hate him for the heinous crime of falling in love.
“We’ve been married for two years,” Shane says. “I’m not sure that qualifies as playing house. I mean, it’s longer than you were with your first wife, isn’t it?”
Or: Shane reunites with his former teammates at J.J.'s bachelor party. He's finally ready to say (and maybe punch) his piece.
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23 Feb 2026
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Crashing by WhimsicalSesquipedalian
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
28 Jan 2026
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“Oh shit.”
Shane looked up, turned his head to where J.J. was sat across the aisle. The blue glow of his phone lit up the too-wide whites of his eyes staring down intently at whatever was on his screen. Shane’s stomach lurched again, anticipating a sudden stop his body hadn’t quite caught up to yet.
“The Centaurs’ plane crashed in Tampa.”
There was a moment where everything was still moving, where Shane and the world were still spinning at the same speed they both always had, and then it all came crashing down. Shane wasn’t sure whether it was him that had stopped, or the world around him, but either way, in a matter of seconds the distance between himself and the bus he had only a moment ago been sitting in became staggeringly, dizzyingly vast.
The Centaur's emergency landing plays out a little bit worse, and Shane is left with the harsh reality of the cost of loving Ilya in secret.
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- Part 1 of Crashing 'Verse
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22 Feb 2026
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In Good Company by FlameHazel18
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
22 Feb 2026
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TROY:
Is there such a thing as a player walk out? Like what if we just refused to play our game on Monday?Or: The first few days after Shane and Ilya are outed, as told by group chats and social media
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- Part 1 of the sum of its parts
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22 Feb 2026
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To be clear, Ilya is grateful the rookies aren’t growing up the way he did in the NHL. Ilya took the hazing to the chin – humiliation rituals, beat downs, grueling practices to prove he could “hang” with the big guns on the team.
That being said, there’s still some part of Ilya that balks at the request by the gaggle of rookies to watch The Iron Giant, a veritable children’s movie at the team’s latest movie night.
OR: Five times Shane and Ilya were the support system for the Centaur rookies they dreamed of having when they were younger.
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- Part 1 of A Day in the Life of a Centaur
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22 Feb 2026

